The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03
MAKING ESTIMATES
AS TO TUE c1rY's ExpENsxs
For tho Current Fiscal Year-Intores,Ing
Committee Meetings Mt tho Public Build.
lug Last EIght-More nonds Talked
OLA High Water Service,

OLA High Water Service.
There will be plenty OF business 10 en-.
gage tho attention Of Council at It's rcgu.
lar seml.monthly meeting on next Tues.
day night. 1n accordance with the pro.
visions Of the restraining ordinance, the
various Council committees and boards
have been called 10 meet on or before
March 4, or as soon thereafter as possible,
to make up tho estimates OF the amounts
OF money necessary to conduct the several
departments during the fiscal year com.
mencing January l.. These estimates will
be referred to tho Finance Committee.
which will consider what the revenues
are likely to BIO and thon prepare an ordi-
nance appropriatins to the departments
the estimated amounts, or in case that Is
not possible, scale Thorn down and an.
propfiate what amount the revenues, or
nor presaing needs Of some other dc.
partment will allow.
Last evening the Committee on Water
Works met at the Public Building and
after organizing by electing MIR. J, A.
tarls as chairman, met with the Board OF
Water Works Commissioners, all Of whom
were present, as provided for by ordi.
nance for the purpose OF drawing up an
estimate. President Hastings was made
chairman OF tho joint meeting, The Board
reported that for the e~xtenaion OF mains
for fire plugs, stopcocks, boxes, tlea. III
and crosses during this yearit would want
Sl2.0OOi Tor the expense OF running the
Works and repairs, $4,000; for the OK.
pense OF repairs to the bottom md middle
and side walls oil the basin, So, 900; total.
$4,000. Last year over $4,000 was asked
for. The estimated receipts for the year
arc put down at $4,000 and the annual
statement made by the Board January /,
last, showed a balance OF 5 $500 lonlhsnd,
This added 10 this year'o estimated excess
OF revenue would leave o balance on hand
the first OF next year Of about Sis, 900.
nIaH WATER SERVICE.
MIR. Harrell, a member Of the commit.
tee, who at the last meeting Of Council
introduced a resolution instructipp the
Water Board to at once proceed to estab-
lish a water service that would furnish
water to those living on high ground.
brought the matter up at once, and occu.
pied a great deal Of time telling about the
matter in his " peculiar way. He
wanted the $4,000 expended for this pur.
pose. Tho Board called attentionto the
fact that in the five years 1t had been in
exietence 1t had given ovor to the CITY
from its revenues, over $4,000 for the re-
dsmption OF bonds and other expcuses
not contracted for on account Of the
Works. The Legislature, in providing
for this Board, had provided that the
revenues from water rents ehould be
used for the use OF the Workp,only, but II
had been deemed best for the city's in.
terest that the Board should assist as it
had for the payment Of an old debt. The
same was done by the Gus Board.
The Board had not been obliyious,
the President went on to state
OF the necessity OF q biph
water service, but deprived of its
funds as it had been, had not been in a
condition TO attempt to do any thing more
than to make an estimate OF the cost. The
Boards idea was to build q reservoir
capable Of holding 5000, 900 gallons, the
basin to be lined with brick, over which
there should be a cement coating. The
coat Of this he'd bOen estimated at sS0 OoO,
AT preeent there is no storage capacity,
a want such a basin as tho Board had con.
sidered, would fill, and ct the same time
provide q high service, and bro.
vide for the city's wants for years
to come. The Board thought such
. basin could bs build for 500 600
Mr.. Harrell stated that one out oil every
FIVE houses in his ward wss without water
By reason OF the lowness OF tho preaert
basins location, and he wanted imme.
diato action taken; no wanted q little
basin built this year, another one next
year and coon. The Board naturally. was
opposed to this patchwork way Of doing
things Gs being expensive and in other
ways unsatisfactory, but it was finally de.
cided to csk Council to be allowed to sat
aside the surplus revenue for the high
service.
Il POLICE DEPARTMENT,
The Committee on Police met and or.
gained by electing Mr.. William Myles
as chairman. Colonel Miller, president
Of the Board Of Police and Fire Comma.
%sioneya, Clerk Stanley and Chief Smith
met with the committee and submitted an
estimate calling for $4,000. OF this
amount, Sl7,670 is for tho salaries OF the
police, $3.50 for the salaries OF the Board.
$1,000 for miscellaneous and secret sar..
vice matters, and $3.50 for one horeo
and a patrol wagon. The commit.
REQ approved these amounts and
will recommend their being an.
propriated. There Seems to be a desire
for the patrol wagon on the part Of Chief
Smith and some others, though just how
it is to be used is not yet made plain. 1t
is not stated how or where it will be kept,
how it will be summoned when wanted,
or how much it is going to cost to keep 1t
and the extra man it will require. In the
establishment OF q patrol service q coneid-
erablo outlay OF money. aside from the
fret cost Of tho horse and wagon, is neces.
STATED.
Col. Miller called tho attention OF the
committee to tho importance Of having
the City Prison under the management OF
the Police Department. As as present,
under o Council committee the police who
fill it have no jurisdiction about the place
or the priooners they put in there. The
present System is old and crude. Col,
Miller said the Board had no desire to in
crease it's duties, but it thought that the
city's interests demanded that the prison
be managed by tho Police Department,
where 1t properly belonged.
Mr.. Myles opposed this as something
very improper. 1t would never do for one
Council committee to adviso taking from
another It's department and consolidating
it with that Of the first. If the CITY
Prison Committee wanted to advise such
q courae. it would be q different thing.
Mr.. Allison, a member of both COM
mittees, sided with Colonel Miller and
thought the suggestion should properly
come from tho Polics Department; It
Was better able 10 Judge what the
proper thing to do in the matter was. He
moved that a recommendation of tho
change be made to Council, and the mo.
ton was loat by q tie vote. Messrs, ALI.